Former VP Joe Biden is releasing his proposal to update one of his signature pieces of legislation: The Violence Against Women Act.
The Biden Plan to End Violence Against Women, builds upon the legislation Biden spearheaded 25 years ago as a senator and seeks to address the issues of sexual, domestic and gender violence in several ways -- including financial help for survivors, as well as addressing cultural attitudes on the subject.
Several Democratic 2020 candidates have also sought to bring attention to the issue of violence against the transgender community of color, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg. "This is a significant increase to that and that is to replicate some of the successful projects we've seen at the local level in moving through these rape kits, and it's particularly focused on law enforcement approaches to these crimes and moving through the backlog that's actually in police storage," one senior adviser said on a call with reporters on Sunday.
Advisers to Biden did not give a specific price tag for the whole plan, arguing that much of what is laid out could be done without additional federal money, focusing instead on"changing regulations, issuing guidance and changing the culture." The Biden campaign pledged that as president Biden would prioritize reauthorizing the act in the first 100 days of his administration.
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